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Tama Leaver

@tamaleaver.bsky.social

🎓 Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin Uni (Boorloo/Perth West Australia); 🔎 @digitalchildau.bsky.social (GenAI & Datafication); 🐘 @tama@aoir.social; he/him. [Views mine; RT/❤️/etc ≠ endorsement]

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Tama Leaver@tamaleaver.bsky.social · last mo.

It was a pleasure part of @aljazeera.com's @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social episode this week discussing the Australia's teen social media ban and the global pushes to replicate it, alongside child rights research superstar @katejsim.bsky.social. The ban story starts at 13.45: ▶️ youtu.be/EFYO-JmbN_k

How xenophobia went viral in South Africa | The Listening Post

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

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The Listening Post@ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · last mo.

This week: • South Africa’s anti-migrant movement - built online, amplified by mainstream media • Post-earthquake in Venezuela, officials are tightening their grip on information • Govts say social media bans will protect children - critics say they solve the wrong problem ▶️ youtu.be/EFYO-JmbN_k

Tama Leaver@tamaleaver.bsky.social · last mo.

Go and listen to the new TED Talk from @candiceodgers.bsky.social, explaining what the data really says about teens and social media, and why bans are the wrong answer. What we're getting wrong about teens and tech go.ted.com/candiceodgers

What we're getting wrong about teens and tech

For years, the warning has been: smartphones are destroying a generation. But developmental psychologist Candice Odgers says that decades of data on teens tells a different story — violence, alcohol u...

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Tama Leaver@tamaleaver.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It's 4.30pm on Friday afternoon and I just finished yesterday's To Do list. I have a full list for today ... now I have to figure out which thing(s) will actually get done. Peer reviews? Maybe not. Grant review. I guess yes. Other things ... will be coming home for the weekend, I suppose. :(

ADM+S Centre@admscentre.org.au · 5mo ago

As voice AI becomes embedded in toys and everyday life, how do we help children not just use it, but question & help design it? www.admscentre.org.au/enhancing-pr... #AIethics #VoiceAI #CoDesign

Enhancing primary years AI literacy and ethics with a voice AI chatbot experience - ADM+S Centre

The ADM+S, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child (Digital Child), and QUT Gen AI Lab have partnered on a new project designed to help young children explore key ethical challenges associated ...

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Jill Walker Rettberg@jilltxt.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Grammarly is no longer a friendly tool to help people become better writers, it is now a full on AI-plagiarism machine. I wrote a blog post showing how Grammarly's Expert review feature (discontinued yesterday) presented fake versions of academics without permission. jilltxt.net/grammarly-ge...

Grammarly generated fake expert reviews “by” real scholars

Grammarly is a full on AI plagiarism machine now, generating text, citations (often irrelevant), “humanizing” the text to avoid AI checkers and so on. If you’re an author or schol…

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Tama Leaver@tamaleaver.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This remains vital to remember: nobody knows if Australian's Under16 Social Media Ban will actually work (ie have a positive impact on under16s) and nobody will be able to judge that meaningfully for years (not days, not months).

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Jean Burgess@jeanburgess.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨CFP: The ADM+S Generative Authenticity project is hosting a small scholarly symposium on Authenticity, Generative AI and Synthetic Media on 6-7 May at QUT Kelvin Grove (and hybrid node). Short abstracts due 9 March. All info and the submission form: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

CFP: ADM+S Generative Authenticity Symposium

Call for Papers Authenticity, Generative AI and Synthetic Media: An ADM+S Symposium 6-7 May 2026, QUT Kelvin Grove, Brisbane Authenticity is often at the centre of concer...

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Tama Leaver@tamaleaver.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Zoë Hitzig's piece in the NYTimes really hits home why OpenAI's inevitable, but even more intrusive, shift to deploying ads in ChatGPT shows (a) an exploitation of private data that eclipses even social media platforms; & (b) that there really are no new ideas coming out of AI companies at all.

Text from article in the New York Times by Zoë Hitzig: For several years, ChatGPT users have generated an archive of human candor that has no precedent, in part because people believed they were talking to something that had no ulterior agenda. Users are interacting with an adaptive, conversational voice to which they have revealed their most private thoughts. People tell chatbots about their medical fears, their relationship problems, their beliefs about God and the afterlife. Advertising built on that archive creates a potential for manipulating users in ways we don’t have the tools to understand, let alone prevent.
Chris Stokel-Walker@stokel.bsky.social · 6mo ago

What happens next now that the European Commission has found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act? My latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social press unpicks the process - and what's likely to happen www.techpolicy.press/the-eu-wants...

The EU Wants to Label 'Addictive Design' a Systemic Risk Under the DSA

The EU's preliminary findings represent a massive test for the Digital Services Act, with implications for all platforms, writes Chris Stokel-Walker.

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ARC Tracker@arc-tracker.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The ARC’s processes are back to being farcical, @jasonclaremp.bsky.social You advocated for a streamlined, efficient, faster ARC, but all that progress has been undone. How can they claim to fund “innovation” with more than a year between initial proposal & outcomes? It should be 6 months, not 16!

ARC Tracker@arc-tracker.bsky.social · 7mo ago

⁉️The ARC has delayed outcomes of ALL grants 1–4 months & increased scheduled outcome windows from 2 weeks to 3 months! This reverses 4 years of progress in providing greater certainty & ability to plan for researchers, their families & unis. Their excuse? Security checks under new ARC legislation👇

Black text on white background. Screenshot of ARC’s Network Message regarding delays to grant announcements because of new security arrangements.